skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bar varies state by state. In CA it’s reasonable, in TX not so much.
Ask Exxon
I didn't claim anything about identifying writing. That's a strawman. I'm talking about humans talking to each other. Even if it's in a zoom call. Any interview process that doesn't include that is broken, and that's my claim. Echo chamber or not.
> Is Big Tech supporting the public good, and if not, what should Big Tech workers do about it?

The problem is not if Big Tech does support or does not support something. The problem is they have any opinion at all! The pitch is they are "platforms" and "arbiters" who decide like highest court. They should not have any opinions at all!

All this oligopoly needs to be dissolved!
I worked it back from stronger language originally in the hope that it would be more easily palatable. I completely agree with your point
Most of these issues have to do with EU immigration quotas, being unable to set competitive tax rates, and not being able to enforce borders, where if you don't have those, you don't have a nation.

I understand this is the point of EU policy, but if you are a country with a history and a future, given how it has gone for everyone else, why would you give that up?

The examples below are from giving up national accountability for their own policies to "harmonized" EU regulations:

- Greece's economic collapse as the consequence of predatory ECB lending

- Spain's economic collapse from related causes

- Germany's failure to manage its national energy needs due to EU "green" policies made it subject to Russian energy dependency. The US had to literally rescue Germany from itself by blowing up Nordstream

- Sweden's no-go zones

- Italy's costal humanitarian crisis'

- Ireland's collapse of their "tiger" economy and yet another serious migrant crisis

- In France, French people are treated as occupiers in their own cities, e.g. Bataclan, Hedbo, etc.

- general anti-family and anti-natalist policies have stopped replacement level birthrates in all EU countries.
Ok, that's the step that was missing. I couldn't figure out how there was a benefit to the users without data being fed back and data can't be fed back without knowing some ID.

So, while Apple doesn't know the ID of the person sending the data, they have a 'room number' that links back to an ID.

If Apple were to decide to scan photos for pictures of 'lines of white powder' they couldn't tell the police your name but they could say that the 3rd party knows who you are.
You can't even turn on and use a new apple product unless you phone home and ask apple for permission. I'm not sure why this is newsworthy. Apple products are known to phone home more than just about anything else. It would be more surprising if apple photos didn't phone home.
I am glad you liked it! <3
Nobody has more PEBKAC problems than me. It might be my experience is colored by older models. I can give it another shot. But I do use LLMs quite a lot and got decent and surprising functionality out of them in the past. I was just consistently vexed by this one thing when doing information seeking search -like activity.
Yeah, calling "fragile" someone who's afraid after an airplane crash has to be peak Hacker News
? sorry i really don't understand this reply... some suppliers have support for nvlink on 4090? i doubt that
I have no idea what a “dimer” is (as opposed to “dimmer”)
There is a lot wrong with the US, and I (not American BTW) will criticise it quite freely and frequently BUT comparing the US to China is just ridiculous.

What the US does can be criticised by its citizens, and protested. People can be punished. Wrongdoing can be exposed. Plenty of people in the US criticise the invasion of Iraq. I doubt many Chinese will find it safe to criticise the occupation of Tibet.

Democracies can and do bad stuff, but internal opposition and accountability limit it, and often but an end to it.
No.

How do you think we got here?

Turns out network effect can compensate for a lot of incompetence and lethargy. Many (most?) big tech engineers are likely already cruising.

Try do something you actually believe is good instead of coping by telling yourself you are intentionally failing to do something bad.
The only reason i bother with custom keyboards hobby is because this is the only way to get a split keyboard that doesn’t cost 400$.

They are great but very expensive- this I think is one of the main reasons why they are so niche.
Some context. The dress code and rules for enforcement are created by the players' representatives commission in FIDE, consisting of active and former competitive players [1] [2].

In a presentation shared with the players about the dress code before the event, jeans are listed on a slide titled "What's NOT allowed?" with "Not Approved" stamped in big red letters over a picture of jeans [3]. FIDE CEO says jeans have been banned in this event since 2018, and that players were asked for feedback on the dress code before the event, and none complained [4].

The same dress code presentation shared with players also has instructions for the Chief Arbiter:

The dress code is strictly enforced to maintain a consistent level of professionalism and respect for the event. The Chief Arbiter, in consultation with the FIDE Athletes Commission, will ensure that the dress code is upheld.

First Infringement
A financial penalty of 200 € for open events and 100 € for women's events. The player is allowed to play the current round.
Further Infringements
Exclusion from the pairings for the next round. Each round counts as one infringement.

Other top players were also asked to change their attire when found in violation. The hotel is a few minutes away [5]. Magnus Carlsen was notified of his violation after his second game on day 2 (round 7) and asked to change into approved attire before the third round of the day (round 8), played half an hour later [6]. Since he declined, he was excluded from playing in the last round of the day (round 9). This counts as a forfeit, and combined with Magnus' score until that point would make a podium finish unlikely, although he would still have been allowed to play in subsequent rounds [7].

In an interview, Magnus stated he was not having the best tournament, explained he had already lost his patience with FIDE due to an ongoing feud over the freestyle chess championship, and stated he declined to change into approved attire as a matter of principle and would withdraw from the rapid tournament and also the upcoming fide blitz tournament, apologizing to fans at home [8].

[1] https://doc.fide.com/docs/90%20Congress%20Agenda%20and%20Ann...

[2] https://www.fide.com/directory/commissions (GM Ahmed Adly, GM Eugenio Torre, IM Dinara Saduakassova, WIM Jesse Nikki February, GM Irina Krush, GM Wei Yi, IM Alina Kashlinskaya, IM Oluwafemi Daniel Balogun, IM Noaman Omar, GM Ioan-Cristian Chirila, IM Irine Kharisma Sukandar, GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Evgeny Tomashevsky, WGM Aleksandra Dimitrijevic)

[3] https://doc.fide.com/docs/2024_WRBC/wrbc2024_dress_code.pdf

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWi5CIKhuSs [ Magnus Carlsen Jeans Scandal | Full Story ] from 15m00s

[5] https://www.fide.com/news/3363

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrK88j-fyaw [ FIDE World Rapid Championship 2024 | Rds 6-9 ], Magnus' round 7 game finishes around 2h24m30s, round 8 2h59m50s

[7] https://www.facebook.com/chess/videos/-magnus-carlsen-is-unp...

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWi5CIKhuSs [ Magnus Carlsen Jeans Scandal | Full Story ] from 3m28s
> they have cherry-picked some extremely simple drugs to synthesize to make their point

It can't do everything, but those cherry-picked examples are still pretty dramatic. Saving $80k to cure your Hep.C is pretty practical. Getting an abortion while living under increasingly emboldened christofascists is pretty practical. Managing your own transgender HRT is pretty practical. Lets not perfect be the enemy of good, it's a pretty solid start.
https://archive.is/5Lx61
yeah essentially this
Show HN: A Novel Method for Implementing Usernames in Cryptocurrencies [pdf]
I wrote out a little paper on a way that usernames could be implemented in cryptocurrencies that solves some of the problems other systems have. Any constructive feedback is welcome.
Heh, I wouldn’t call companies that use mainframes “too cheap.”
> which is likely what was done here

Incorrect. All of those links are taken from the YouTube Music app on Android via search. Some are contrived, but the point is that there is a wide range of counterexamples to your assertion that YouTube Music is this siloed thing that's only music direct from publishers.

Here's a more straightforward example. I search for "action bronson blue chips 2" [1]

The top result is "Action Bronson Blue Chips 2 ((Full Album)) - Please Subscribe" from user 'Lpmixtapes compilation and mixtapes...'[2]

The official release [3] is a page scroll down.

So, I don't think it's reasonable to call people "terrible at search" when these things literally come up as top results in search and are fair game for the recommendation algo to slide into your stream, or "full of shit" when they can give you specific examples of how things you've said are wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Chips_2 (2013 release under a major label imprint, not "fringe", whatever that means)

[2](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ji4qgTD6M&si=ZlwtChMuSym...)

[3] https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n9qboVggQncM...
I think this is naive, because a flaw of such free market thinking is its failure to price in externalities. That’s what the relationship with the climate crisis link was about.
What is the relationship between this blog post and the H1-B visa program? And are you saying that Twitter has exploited the H-1B program to erode user protections?

It seems like you're just trying to shoehorn some kind of unrelated anti-Musk sentiment into a discussion that has nothing to do with H-1B visas or Elon Musk?
> Some choices are just convenience.
> Most people don’t know they’re limiting their interaction.

Sure, but they often carry political implications (even if the choice/chooser was unconscious of them)

> Most people with an iPhone don’t choose to text on messenger because of a political opinion, it’s just because it’s the default app on their phone.

That's not the best example to make your point considering many people see iPhones (and its "exclusive" text bubble color) as an economic and social class signifier.

The insane planned obsolescence model of the iPhone necessitating constant replacement has environmental consequences, etc. Once again, the end user being unaware of all of this does not prevent it from still being very real.

> Just because a choice may have political ramifications doesn’t mean that it was a choice made for political reasons.

Never said otherwise. A reminder of what I replied to:

> In fact, any platform that uses decentralization as a selling point is inherently political, as the only ones that care about decentralization are the ones who care about politics.

My original point was that merely "avoiding political things" by using platform Y instead of Z does not exempt one from being political. The act of choosing to opt out of politics in this way or any other is literally political and has real consequences.
Bernie mostly bent the knee, and fell in line to his party's talking points. He dropped talking about immigration this way a while ago.
I don't think anyone is obligated to go through the entire interview process just so they can decline the offer.

Yes, you'd waste a few hours of some expensive engineers' time, and more hours of relatively cheap recruiter time - but sending the recruiter a big ol' fuck you on first contact gets the message across just fine.
This seems very similar to yesterday's article about North Korea running similar shenanigans via LinkedIn[0].
Probably good to make it the norm to run these things in a VM. I doubt this requires running on a completely different host yet, given the simplicity of the code.

[0] Analyzing North Korean Malware | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42516568
That feels like a big factor. I see far more engineers and techies in SF than artists and poets. Not sure how many artists could survive in the city when not only rent is so expensive, but almost all other goods are also more expensive (largely because the stores and their employees pay those high rents too).
Map of San Francisco coffee shops open late
In this context, "neurolinguistic programming".
What value does a hub add in this day and age? I imagine most ships would sail direct rather than stopping at a hub.
I have a loved one who is struggling with drug shortages. Unfortunately it's a schedule 2 drug, so I'm sure attempting to manufacture my own would be very illegal. I wouldn't be surprised if we're in a transition period where the tech is becoming accessible, but isn't yet heavily regulated. Both the DEA and pharmaceutical companies have an interest in stopping people from making their own drugs at home.
The problem with optimising exclusively for oneself is that you definitionally optimise at the expense of others. Gaps are easily widened, and your balancing idea falls apart when the scales are tipped from the start.
who treat coding as a craft even more valuable

You probably think this of yourself. So do I.

You see, how do we know this isn't dunning kruger? If Dunning Kruger could talk, this is what it would sound like.
> Using advanced AI in math is a mistake in my opinion.

I too feel saddened by the idea of automating math if it leads to inscrutable proofs or theories. But it seems essential that we advance the tools used for mathematical discovery if we hope to keep advancing. Hopefully we can find a balance where the advancement of mathematical understanding continues to be a human story, but we're not artificially held back by pretending new tools don't exist.
Dare I ask: what did people do before the internet existed?
No, they (and every other BigTech) exploit it to erode worker protections.

Which in turn contributes to eroding user protections, since unprotected workers aren't really in a position to put up a fight when management tells them to do something unethical.
Hosted Matrix can be a good sweet spot: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/hosting/
Hey, that's my former professor!
Hi Shriram!
I think you totally misunderstand what he is saying.

You can’t make people do things with ethics. That’s not what ethics is for, and that’s not what he is talking about.
I think that those of us who live in the HN bubble, who tend to be more intentional and minimalist about our technology choices, are often out of touch with 90+% of users. My wife is my daily reminder of, and window into, the technology world that most people live in.
eWaste is caused by all kinds of things and one thing that is easily solvable is replaceable batteries. I also hope that it will be forced for all phones, people shouldn't be able to pay a little extra to destroy the planet
Looks like Spotify will report a profit for the first time in 2024
What „user protections“ were eroded at Twitter/X? Or do you just mean it became less woke?
Dupe (229 points, 2 day sago, 139 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524190
???

The lunar lake Xe (IE the generation before the current one) is not rock solid on linux - i can get it to crash the gpu consistently just by loading enough things that use GL.
Not like 100, like 5.

If i start chrome and signal and something else, it often crashes the gpu after a few minutes.

I've tried latest kernel and firmware and mesa and ....

The GPU should not crash, period.
as long as the “defense” budget is 89.76 trillion dollars we cool, H1B or not…
not sure if recruiters will give a shit. they cast really wide, low-effort nets. until you get to offer stage you're a nobody, and to get to offer you usually have to expend non-trival time/effort.
> u-Block Origin's annoyances filters take care of the cookie banners, giving the best of both worlds: no banners and a minimal amount of tracking.

Word of caution though, that might silently break some websites. I've lost count of the times some HTTP request silently failed because you weren't meant to be able to get some part of the website, without first rejecting/accepting the 3rd party cookies.

Usually, disabling uBlock, rejecting/accepting the cookies and then enabling it again solves the problem. But the first time it happened, it kind of caught me by surprise, because why in holy hell would you validate those somehow?!
> but trying to hand-wave away this advantage C++ has over Rust is disingenuous.

I'm not trying to hand wave that away. That is an advantage c++ has. But if you only care about supporting platforms that rust supports, rust can make supporting all the platforms you do care about easier than if you used c++.
One time in Paris I received a crème brûlée that strongly resembled the face of Jesus Christ, so naturally I took a picture before devouring it.

Last night I was able to find the image using the single word "creme". Definitely saved the story.
Also, IMHO instead of a few strong senders, an attacker could use more low-powered senders placed in proximity to power stations.
That's obviously not what I meant. Communication on current social media has only led us into a new era of populism, and seems to only worsen political polarization. Unless something changes, I will continue to think it does more harm than good.
Depends on what would be hit.

If a tactical nuke on Ukraine - then likely a massive military response and even china would distance themself.

A tactical nuke on NATO would likely have the automated chain reaction of all out war.
The explanation is simple: most people on the left love immigration. Well guess what, people on H1Bs are competing for the same tech jobs everyone else is. There is this fallacy (promoted by the tech billionaires) that the import of tech workers is due to a lack of skill in local workers, and this is simply not true (very much the opposite actually), I saw it first hand at every single company I worked at; the real reason is to be able to excerpt as much control over the life of the worker as possible (they cannot switch jobs as easily as a citizen), that's it.

You are actually supporting this stance with your argument. When Elon fired a bunch of people at Twitter who prevailed? H1Bs of course...

Independently of who is controlling the government something has to be done about it, ideally reforming the H1B program to be for very highly skilled workers (my threshold would be something akin of the knowledge an engineer at ASML/TMSC has) and not random CRUD developers.
The differences in design reflect differences in use case assumptions, which in turn reflects that different OS tend to be used for different workloads.

Broadly speaking it is difficult to use async I/O well without understanding the implementation details. It is a sharp tool for experts, not magic “go faster” juice.
> Also, Big Tech may need fewer people to achieve its goals

Someone has drunk the ChatGPT-will-replace-$500,000-engineers koolaid, I see
You're right! S3E2 "Mail Order Prophet", originally aired 10/13/57, but I didn't see it until it re-ran in the 60's.
> All of us must navigate the trade-off between “me” and “we.” A famous Talmudic quote states: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?” We must balance optimizing for oneself with optimizing for others, including the public good... To take an extreme example, Big Tobacco surely does not support the public good, and most of us would agree that it is unethical to work for Big Tobacco. The question, thus, is whether Big Tech is supporting the public good, and if not, what should Big Tech workers do about it.

The duty to align your professional life ethically scales with your ability to do so. I personally don't cast aspersions on anyone working in tobacco farms or in a gas station selling cigarettes; they're just trying to get by. But if you're one or two levels up Maslow's Pyramid, it's right to weigh your personal needs against the impact of your work. You'll also be better off for it, knowing that the world would be worse off if you decided to switch gears and become a carpenter/baker/bartender/choose your adventure.

I'll also say: there are ways to contribute morally outside of your 9-5. Volunteer to teach a neighborhood kid to code. Show your local sandwich shop how to set their hours online, or maybe even build them a cookie cutter Squarespace site. Donate a small fraction of your salary (eg 0.5% local, 0.5% global) to causes you believe in, and scale up over the years.
Someone being deceived is a victim, yes.
I saw the prompt snippet and thought the same as you. Honestly, giving it samples of your prior cover letters you’ve written yourself would be a vastly more personal touch emulating your writing style and personality.

Anyhow, problems with the spray and pray aside, applicants should match the effort the hiring managers puts in. Which is automating the first few passes, and last mile is human read. As in, proofread your own generated cover letters.
just yesterday the owner of twitter was getting his employees to delete the accounts of posts he disagreed with
It's actually not fair to judge this one way or the other at the two year mark.

We technically removed the last C++ code from the core project in January 2024 (~a year ago), the last C++ code altogether (a test helper) in June 2024 (six months ago). We only decided to push out a release now because we've added enough new features (not counting the rewrite as a feature) to warrant a release.

But at the same time, someone could argue that the current codebase is still far from being fully idiomatic rust, there are various C++-isms ranging from the use of UTF-32 (historical from the nature of std::wchar/std::wstring under *nix) to still passing around file descriptors rather than rust `File` objects (that will take a lot of rearchitecting to make mut-safe).

Ultimately, a project is never "done" and we're not being paid at all let alone contingent upon completion of the port, so there's no real use in saying it took precisely this long or that long. We're releasing now because we want to, but I wouldn't tie the release cadence with the port timespan.
What about honoring our multi-year college degrees. Isn't that licensing enough?
> More and more "zero trust" .. more logging and audit, more spot checks, more re-logins

Shades of HIPAA. It tries to tackle security and privacy of patient data but it winds up applying large corp requirements (inappropriately) to small practices. There seems to be little distinction of who the regs are being applied to.

One upshot is that small practices have to dedicate resources to understand/audit/report/comply with requirements that don't apply to them.

ex: Extensive audits of how a practice secures local patient data that doesn't exist - because it fully resides on remote provider platforms.
I totally understand this rationally if you sit down and walk me through the steps.

But there's a lot of reasons - ego, fear of losing... that core identity, etc. that can easily come back and bite you.

I'm not sure if this is the same as meditation and ego death or whatever. I find that even if you go down the spiritual route, you also run into the same issues.

People in philosophy also argue things like rational actors, self-coherency, etc.

And hey, even in this current moment you were able to type out a coherent thought, right?

I've noticed more and more that humans behave a lot like LLM's. In the sense that it's really, really hard to observe my true internal state - I can only try to find patterns and guess at shit. Every theory I've tried applying to myself is just "wrong" - in the sense that either it feels wrong, or I'll get depressed because the theory basically boils down to "you're lazy and you have to do the work" which is a highly emotionally evocative theory that doesn't help anyone.

This probably didn't make any sense but g'day.
Definitely better than the Victorian explorer who wanted to eat one of every animal